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Aug
An additional revenue of 455 million Ghana Cedis is expected to be made from excise duties, following an amendment to the first schedule of the Excise Duty Act, 2014 (Act 878). This is because there has been an introduction of the hybrid method of duty calculation on tobacco and other related products, viewed as generally unhealthy. According to Nelson Bright Atsu, the Head of Compliance at the Excise Unit of the Ghana Revenue Authority “if you talk to the health authorities they will tell you their pain. If you talk to other researchers, they are also complaining that something must…